How to transfer photos and files between PC and Android smartphones
FanDroid | Jul 13, 2011 | Comments 4
Transfer photos and files to your PC from your Android look complicated but if you now the tips than everything will go easy. What you have to prepare is USB cable, your computer either Windows or Mac and of course your smartphones.
Here is a simple tips on how to copy and transfer photos and files between your PC or Mac to your Android smartphones like Droid, HTC, or Samsung Galaxy S :
- Connect Android smartphones or tablets to your PC or Mac with a USB cable. You have to use USB that came with your Android Smartphones
- You will see the USB connected nofitication at the top of the screen.
Tab or click on the USB connected notification. For access to messages, you must click in the status bar at the top of the screen and drag it down. - Then, Click on Mount
- You will see Android smartphones icon display on your computer. For Windows PC , the icon will be appeared in My Computer and for Mac user the phone icon will be appeared on the desktop.
- Now you can transfer files easily by just copy and paste as you usually do when copy files on computer
- If you finish transfer photos and files to your Andrid smartphones, than you can disable the notifications on USB memory.
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Unfortunately my phone could not even manage the 2. point. Nothing appears on the top bar saying that the phone is connected to my computer… Even if USB tethering is turned on.
The strange thing is that previously I was using a different computer to transfer the files from my phone, and the above mentioned steps were working well that time. There is no problem with the USB connection of my computer though,I double checked it with a different device.
Any suggestions how to fix the problem?
Hey Lindsi,
Seeing as I can’t look into your computer, this is just a guess, but it might have something to with the drive letter asigned to your phone. Try googling it if you don’t know what I mean by that. Again, just a suggestion.
I found that if I turn off my phone then plug usb into computer & then turn on the phone it will then recognize the phone and bring up notification at top of screen.
I used to transfer photos from my android phone samsung galaxy young to a computer.but lately most of files are shortcuts which makes it impossible to use those files including photos.how can I bypass this problem.I real need to use the shortcutted files and photos